Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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As the 1920s progressed, farm incomes
a. | declined. | b. | increased more rapidly than did incomes in
urban areas. | c. | increased, but did so less rapidly than did urban incomes. | d. | remained
steady. |
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Which of the following reformers outlined the Social Gospel in a book entitled
Christianity and the Social Crisis?
a. | Jane Addams | c. | Upton Sinclair | b. | Walter Rauschenbusch | d. | Ida Tarbell |
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Use the following graph to answer the question(s).
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In which decade did the number of women employed in manufacturing increase
most?
a. | 1860s | c. | 1880s | b. | 1870s | d. | 1900s |
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How do the changes shown in this graph relate to Progressive reforms?
a. | As more women entered the Progressive movement, the number of women workers
decreased. | b. | Progressives encouraged women to leave urban manufacturing jobs to take rural farming
jobs. | c. | As more women entered the industrial workforce, more women began to work for better
living and working conditions and voting rights. | d. | The Women’s Trade Union League organized
to limit the number of women working in manufacturing. |
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What social problem did Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle
describe?
a. | the struggles of black Americans | b. | the living and working conditions in
Chicago’s stockyards | c. | the ruthless business methods of John D.
Rockefeller and Standard Oil | d. | the conflict between California farmers and the
Southern Pacific Railroad |
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Many Progressives who followed Walter Rauschenbusch’s Social Gospel
program believed that
a. | government should not regulate business. | b. | Christianity should
be the basis of social reform. | c. | laws shortening the workweek were
unconstitutional. | d. | child labor encouraged discipline and a strong
work ethic. |
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Which reform resulted from the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
a. | a ban on child labor | b. | antitrust legislation | c. | workers’
compensation laws | d. | the spread of settlement
houses |
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Many Progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt
organizations called
a. | trusts | b. | commissions | c. | municipal
services | d. | political machines |
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Industrial workers often labored
a. | for high wages. | b. | under ideal conditions. | c. | with unsafe
machinery. | d. | in well-ventilated factories. |
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Progressive women reformers worked to
a. | reduce wages. | b. | limit the workday. | c. | overturn the
Nineteenth Amendment. | d. | establish segregated schools in
Chicago. |
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Which reform did the Nineteenth Amendment enact?
a. | temperance laws | c. | a ban on child labor | b. | women’s suffrage | d. | African American men’s
suffrage |
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Which woman founded the National Association of Colored Women to help African
American families and those who were less fortunate?
a. | Susan B. Anthony | c. | Alice Paul | b. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | d. | Ida B. Wells |
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The NWP and the NAWSA primarily differed in their
a. | goals | c. | organization | b. | strategies | d. | geographic
focus |
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The 1903 Muller v. Oregon decision upheld
a. | women’s right to vote | c. | women’s right to birth
control | b. | higher wages for women | d. | limited work hours for women |
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What was one goal of the Americanization movement during the Progressive
Era?
a. | to extend voting rights to African Americans | b. | to increase support
for the temperance movement | c. | to overturn segregation
laws | d. | to make immigrants more loyal and moral citizens |
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W.E.B. Du Bois was an outspoken critic of
a. | Ray Stannard Baker. | c. | Booker T. Washington. | b. | William Monroe
Trotter. | d. | Woodrow
Wilson. |
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Which event led to the formation of the NAACP?
a. | the 1908 Springfield riot | b. | the Plessy v. Ferguson
decision | c. | the first meeting of the Niagara Movement | d. | the segregation of
federal government offices in 1914 |
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Which group formed the Anti-Defamation League to defend itself against verbal
attacks and false statements?
a. | Asian Americans | c. | Native Americans | b. | Jewish Americans | d. | Mexican
Americans |
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A 1913 California law forced Japanese Americans to
a. | learn English. | c. | sign unfair labor contracts. | b. | sell their
land. | d. | become United States
citizens. |
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Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following
questions.
Local Union Catechism
Q. What is the Women’s Christian Temperance
Union? A. It is an organization of Christian women banded together for the protection of the hoe,
the abolition o the liquor traffic and the triumph of Christ’s golden rule in custom and
law.
Q. How can a women become a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union? A.
By signing the pledge and paying yearly dues.
Q. What is the pledge? A. Pledge--“I
hearby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented, and malt liquors,
including wine, beer, and cider,and to employ all proper means to enforce the Eighteenth
Amendment.”
Q. What are the membership dues? A. One dollar per year.
Q. To
whom should dues be paid? A. To the treasurer of the local
union... --Handbook for the Women’s Christian Temperance
Union, 1920
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For what purpose was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union formed?
a. | to become a third political party | c. | to protect the home and ban
liquor | b. | to gain universal voting rights | d. | to improve workers’
conditions |
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The efforts of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union eventually led to
which change?
a. | suffrage | c. | workplace reform | b. | prohibition | d. | minimum wage |
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22.
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Which legislation gave the government the authority to set and limit shipping
costs?
a. | the Elkins Act | c. | the Mann-Elkins Act | b. | the Hepburn Act | d. | the Payne-Aldrich
Act |
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